Skittle-square or game-board



(No Model) J. JOTTEN.

SKITTLE SQUARE 0R GAME BOARD. No. 284.306. Patented Septf l, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN Jorrnn, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SKITTLE-SQUARE OR GAME BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,306, datedSeptember 4, 1883.

Application filed April 2, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J 01311 J OTTEN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Skittle-Square's'orGame-Boards, of which the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, forming a part thereof, forms a full, clear, andexact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a device by which a game can beplayed in the parlor, sitting-room, or other place which will be amusingand attractive; and to this end my invention consists in mounting on asuitable base two upright pieces of timber or other material connectedat their upper ends by a crosspiece. The cross-piece has secured theretoa cord or string, to which is attached a ball or other shaped objectadapted to be swung or thrown around a standard orpin secured to thebase-plate,-and detachable or loose pins arranged on the base-plate, soas to be in the path of the returning ball and to be knocked down by thesame, as will more fully appear.

The figure of the drawing is a view in perspective of my improveddevice.

A is the base-plate, in which are secured the standards or uprights A A,said standards being connected at theirflupper ends by a crossbar, A, soas to form a rigid and unyielding frame or structure. r l

To the under side of the cross-bar A, and a little to one side of thecenter, is secured a hook or swivel, B, to which is secured a rope orcord, B, said cord or rope having attached to itslower end a ball, 0.

D is a pin or standard, secured to the baseplate A, and around which theball thrown in playing the game. I

E E are pins, much in the nature of tenpins, which are set on thebase-plate A in i any convenient or desirable manner, and adapted tobeknocked down if struck by the, ball (3 or by the other pins strikingagainst them. The pins E may be numbered,

so that a person knocking down pins contain: ing the highest numbers inso many trials or .of the base A, provided with throws of the ball willbe declared the win ner; or the result of the game can be determined anddecided in favor of the party knocking down the greatest number of pinsin a cerduring the evolutions of the ball in coming to a state of rest,it strikes the pins E and knocks them down.

While I have designed this game-board as p more speciallysuitedforparlor and domestic use, I do not wish to limit myself to such use,for it is obvious that by enlarging its size it can be used inbowlingsaloons, gymnasiums, 00., to good advantage.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to use a swinging ball in knockingdownpins in a game apparatus, and such I do not claim; but

WVhat I do claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a gameapparatus, a suspended ball adapted to be thrown forwardaround and over a stationary pin or standard, and to come in contactwith loose or detached pins placed on the base-plate of .the device toknock down the same in the return passage of the ball, as set forth.

2. In a game apparatus, the combination of the suspended and swingingball 0 with the stationary pin or standard D andloose pins E, as and forthe purpose set forth.

8. The combination, in a game apparatus, the stationary pin D, loosepins E, standards A A, cross-bar A, with the cordvor rope B, and ball 0,as

set forth.

' JOHN JOTTEN: WVitnessesz FRANZ SIEGEL, CHARLES KRAUsE.

